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Every organization in exIQtive has an organizational tree made of organizational objects. The tree is how you organize readiness across your company, and how employees receive their work.

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Organizational objects

All six share one numbering system. See Organizational object codes.

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Attachments

  • A department can contain positions, sub-departments, or both, at any depth.
  • A position can belong to only one department at a time. A position that isn’t placed in a department is unassigned.
  • A responsibility can be attached to multiple roles.
  • A role can be attached to multiple positions.
  • A responsibility can also be attached directly to a position.
  • When you assign an employee to a position, they’re automatically assigned its roles, the responsibilities attached to those roles, and any responsibilities attached directly to the position.
  • An employee’s responsibilities come from the position, not from its department. Moving a position between departments doesn’t change them.

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Organizational object codes

Each department, position, role, responsibility, job family, and job category has a unique numeric code (like #345) within your organization. Codes are assigned by the system, never change, and are never reused. All six types share one numbering, so no two objects have the same code. Use codes to find organizational objects quickly and precisely; you can search by code. The full rules are in Organizational concepts.

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Common questions

Departments sit at the top of the tree and organize positions into a hierarchy for navigation and filtering. The chain through which employees receive their work is position, then roles, then responsibilities. Departments don’t affect which responsibilities an employee holds.
Through their position: the employee is assigned to a position, and receives every responsibility in the roles attached to it, plus any responsibility attached directly to the position. Responsibilities are never assigned directly to an employee.
Yes. A role can be attached to any number of positions. Define it once with its responsibilities and reuse it wherever it’s needed.
Each department, position, role, responsibility, job family, and job category has a unique numeric code (like #345). Codes make it easy to find and refer to specific objects precisely, especially in large organizations where names can be similar across departments.
Yes. If the same responsibility is in two roles that are both attached to the same position, the employee receives it twice, once for each role. Each role generates its own independent assignment.

Positions

Create and manage positions.

Roles

Create and manage roles.

Managing responsibilities

Create and manage responsibilities.

Departments

Group positions into departments.

Organizational concepts

Definitions and rules for every building block.
Last modified on October 14, 2026